County: Kildare Site name: CELBRIDGE: St Wolstan's
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1653
Author: Rosanne Meenan, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 699129m, N 733626m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343569, -6.511321
Planning permission was granted to build a two-storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and associated services. The present St Wolstan’s House (SMR 11:28) was said to have been built by John Allen, who was also reputed to have built Jigginstown House near Naas. The development site is located at the eastern extremity of the field in which stand the remains of St Wolstan’s Priory (SMR 11:14). There are remains of three gatehouses and another tower. The closest of the standing remains lies approximately 80m west of the development site. The other remains lie further away and closer to the banks of the River Liffey.
The site was previously tested (Excavations 2001, No. 611, 01E1026). Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed during current monitoring of soil-stripping and excavation of foundations.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
